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TD's post reminded me there was a novel out a few years (?) back where the plot involved a group orchestrating the untimely deaths of all the justices on one side of the spectrum (dont recall which) in order to stack the court from the other direction.

Anyone recall what book that was? Seems like it was by a well known writer, but I'm drawing a blank.

EDIT: Found it.
It was the Pelican Brief, by John Grisham. Think I read that about 2 decades ago. So much for "a few years" when you're listening to an old guy.

-- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. --

In her speeches and comments it is full of contradictions and I think she is more motivated by new legislations on gun control than saving lifes or saving kids lifes. First, a firearm in the wrong hands with one, two or 10 cartridges could have deadly consequences. Second, police in Elementary school should be mandatory, nothing is more precious than kids.

And third, considerate law abiding citizens like criminals is completly wrong, She didn't have a word or any proposed action against the criminals, that's very surprising! If what she said was true, why after so many gun control laws in California there is so many criminals? Are the criminals obey laws? I mean there are some questions about the efficiency of these laws...

The 2nd Amendment is not only about self defense, hunting, target shooting...

The Second Amendment is primarily about allowing American citizens to protect them selves from a takeover by a tyrannical government. Hunting and target shooting at the time were a given. The tyrannical government is getting closer every day, especially with idiots like Feinstein in charge. She was the same fool who a few days ago said, "We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines." Huh?

These same idiots never concede that banning assault weapons will not have any deterrent affect on criminals. In fact, it may embolden them to attack "soft targets" where they will not run into resistance. Assault weapons were already banned in Connecticut prior to the attack on the school. Perhaps Adam Lanza was not aware of that.

Originally Posted by robjones

TD's post reminded me there was a novel out a few years (?) back where the plot involved a group orchestrating the untimely deaths of all the justices on one side of the spectrum (dont recall which) in order to stack the court from the other direction.

I've been waiting for Alex Jones to raise that issue. I would not put it past the current administration to do something like that. He only needs to replace two conservative justices with Young Turk Liberals in order to pack the court in his favor for the next 20 or 30 years.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin

We migrated to the United States to escape oppressive totalitarian government.

The concept behind the United States is that the centralized federal government has limited power over the people (as opposed to the dictatorships from which we came)

The Second Amendment states that in order to maintain a free state, the people must retain the right to keep and bear arms. The presence of armed citizens is what keeps the government "honest". No government would be foolish enough to impose a dictatorship on people who have the ability to resist.

The Second Amendment does not grant us this right. This right already existed. The Second Amendment merely prevents the government from infringing on it.

NOTE: "Well-regulated militia" does not mean the National Guard. At the time this was written, "well-regulated" meant "well-trained". If you believe "militia" means the National Guard, you must also believe that freedom of speech is reserved for the U.S. Government printing office. If you read 10 USC Sec. 311 (That's Title 10 of the U.S. Code, Section 311, subtitle A part chapter 13) you'll find this:(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.The Importance of the Second AmendmentConstitutional Topic: The Second Amendment - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

There are two principle versions of the Second Amendment: one version was passed by Congress, while the other is found in the copies distributed to each individual state and later ratified by them

As passed by the Congress:A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

As ratified by the States: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

If there is a complete economic collapse, our cities would quickly turn into bloodbaths as soon as people got hungry--which would only take a few days.

At some point the US will need to choose between a dollar collapse or 20% interest rates. In a couple of more years the national debt will reach 20 trillion and how do you pay $4 trillion in interest payment when the entire Federal Budget is only $3.6 trillion.

Originally Posted by TopDogger

Anyone who doesn't think this is possible in the USA needs to spend more time studying the history of humanity. Our Constitution will not stop anyone who doesn't believe in The Constitution. When Obama was a part-law school lecturer (he never was a constitutional scholar or law professor), he frequently referred to The Constitution as a "deeply flawed document."

There's a lot of loopholes in the US constitution. The 22nd Amendment loop hole woulkd allow Obama to run as Vice President i.e. under a Biden-Obama ticket and Biden could resign to allow Obama to become President again.

Originally Posted by robjones

TD's post reminded me there was a novel out a few years (?) back where the plot involved a group orchestrating the untimely deaths of all the justices on one side of the spectrum (dont recall which) in order to stack the court from the other direction.

Imagine what would happen if you appointed either Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid to the Supreme Court ...

Originally Posted by robjones

The ammo is being purchased by DHS, not DOD. It isn't headed for the military, it is a single piece of a broader pattern of militarizing executive branch depts.

or they just ordered enough ammo to kill every man/woman/ child in the country for target practice (even though the ammo is NOT the type used for target shooting).

Correct. During the 1960s riots the police supplied the National Guard with ammo and Guardsman actually turned in more ammo than they were issued.

If you look at the numbers, there's about 1 million Federal/Local Police and 350k national Guard. 1.8 billion rounds is about enough ammo for 1.5 million men using the standard calcualation is 1,000 rounds per man.

Originally Posted by robjones

Yep... what passes for economic policy now is so laughably unsustainable the only choices are the guys in DC are uniformly incapable of recognizing it or are doing it intentionally.

The 2011 average annual inflation rate of 8 percent as measured by the Everyday Price Index. This is about a 1970s levels. Gold reached $1000 back in 1979 and today it's more than $1600 an ounce. This tells you something. Even the unemployment rate at 7.7% is a very bad sign.

After the 1973-1975 recession, unemployment declined to 5.6% in 1979 during the 'Jimmy Carter' recovery. You can only print money so long and the results was the double dip recession of 1980 & 1981-1982.

Four years after the 2007-2009 recession, the 'Obama Recovery' is at a 7.7% unemployment rate and 50 million people on food stamps. This is where it gets scary. A double dip recession in 2014 could double the unemployment rate to 15% and where do you get the money to give out 99 weeks of unemploymenr and 75 million people on foodstamps?

Originally Posted by robjones

Huh?! This is supposed to be an acceptable answer? The House should be sending Napolitano a subpeona and ripping her apart before impeaching her. This military buildup of civilian departments.

Napolitano released 2,000 crimminal illegal aliens before the sequester and plans to release another 3,000. There's no doubt the Department of Homeland Security could hold back assistance for political reasons.

Originally Posted by iowadawg

As ratified by the States: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The National Guard is a kind of a militia in that they are under partial state control. Though the National Guard doen't replace the militia. If you look at the numbers, there's 350,000 National Guardsman and 50 States. So, that's an average of 7,000 National Guard per state. New York City alone has over 40,000 policeman. The numbers don't add up. Look what happened to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Originally Posted by obamanation

Its pretty funny watching these guys stutter when they get asked real questions from hostile callers.

Robert Gibbs Is Asked About Obama's Connecticut Social Security Number.

That was not the government of Cyprus.
That was done by the EU.
Now that they see how easy to do this taking of money?
Bet they start doing the same throughout the EU.
And the US can easily do the same here.

That was not the government of Cyprus.
That was done by the EU.
Now that they see how easy to do this taking of money?
Bet they start doing the same throughout the EU.
And the US can easily do the same here.

The EU is a Socialist government association, is it not? All of the member countries are Socialist.

I am surprised that they did this to Cyprus citizens first. Why hit the Greeks and other failing countries first?

According to other articles, the tax has not yet been extracted from their accounts, but has been frozen pending a meeting on Monday.

The tax imposition may just be shock therapy. If the EU is successful in their threat to force people to bail out their countries with personal savings, it will very likely put incredible pressure on government officials to stop playing games and get their house in order. The onus falls directly on the politicians, who as in Greece have lavished benefits on people in order to buy votes. Obama Claus has many counteparts in some EU countries.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin